A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story.
Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book. He introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it.
There are thrilling connections between stories; themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. “Afterlife” is about a man who died of colon cancer and keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. Other stories address what happens when someone discovers that he has supernatural powers—the columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in “Obits;” the old judge in “The Dune” who, as a boy, canoed to a deserted island and saw names written in the sand, the names of people who then died in freak accidents. In “Morality,” King looks at how a marriage and two lives fall apart after the wife and husband enter into what seems, at first, a devil’s pact they can win.
Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King’s finest gifts to his constant reader—“I made them especially for you,” says King. “Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.”
發表於2024-05-17
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圖書標籤: 斯蒂芬·金 小說 英文原版 奇幻 有聲書 懸疑 短篇 ★
恭喜老金的《訃告》獲16年埃德加奬最佳短篇故事——雖然在我讀過的三篇裏,並不以這篇為最佳,除瞭迴傢種地的結局略有反差的驚喜。沒辦法,總是忍不住會聯想到death note。
評分二十篇短篇小說,給人來帶五味雜陳的閱讀感受。感覺斯蒂芬·金確實老瞭,因為小說集加入瞭更多的懷舊元素,傢庭與親子關係也成為多個短篇的重要主題。
評分喜歡bad little kid 和mile81,特彆是mile81好血腥暴力
評分今天就讀瞭2個短篇,其中沙丘裏齣現的名字是?
評分Stephen is still chill as hell
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